As of Friday morning, just under 1.5 inches of rain had fallen in Roseburg in the past few days.
More than 34 percent of the state is currently in an extreme drought, which includes most of Douglas County, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Compare that to the same time last year, when none of the state was in a drought.
Marc Spilde, a NWS meteorologist, said everyone is counting on rain this winter, because two years of drought doesn’t bode well for the following summer, especially for fire season.
Spilde said, “If we have another winter here where it’s dry it’s going to be problematic going into the summer.
“Up in our area we had one day of lightning this summer and you saw what it did.
Spilde said normally there would be 2.5 inches of rain in the first two weeks of the month.
Typically there would be more than two and a half inches of rain, Spilde said.
But, he said, it could happen.
Stream flows for October were 57 percent of normal, according to the water report.

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Maharashtra farmers’ protest: Over 20,000 farmers on 2-day march from Thane to Mumbai Thane: Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai’s iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red – formed by farmers in red caps – on a long march through Maharashtra.
In the run-up to the 2019 national election, states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab have been facing massive farmer protests.
The farmers are also demanding an increase in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and a judicial system to ensure its implementation.
"Two bills to ensure these rights were drafted by the All India Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AISCC) and placed in parliament but both bills have been languishing.
The ruling party and opposition will now understand the gravity of this problem," Avik Saha, leader of Jai Kisan Andolan told NDTV.
Backing the protest, the CPM tweeted: "Damning report on Modi’s demonetisation disaster from the horse’s mouth!
Agriculture Ministry admits note bandi hit farmers badly, at time when farmers from across India head to Delhi to mark their anger in the form of a massive Kisan Long March to parliament."
He slammed the Congress for repeatedly "cheating farmers" by making "fake promises" on their loan waiver schemes.
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday held talks with agitating sugarcane farmers and assured a higher minimum price.

Italian clothmaker Botto Giuseppe, which supplies luxury brands Giorgio Armani SpA and Max Mara, says it has increased prices on average by 7 to 8 percent in the last year on wool fabric, while high-end Swiss-based sportswear label Mover has put up the retail price of its merino wool t-shirts by 15 percent.
Botto Giuseppe has increased the price of wool flannel fabric used for suits to 19.50 euros per metre compared to 18 euros a year ago, CEO Botto Poala said.
“We won’t go into less expensive wools, we will just have to take a sharper margin and we’ll have to increase the price,” said John Bishop, CEO of the company which has collaborated with Nike on a range of plaid wool sneakers.
The privately-held company declined to give details on how margins will be affected.
Wool has become increasingly popular for use in sportswear due to its temperature regulating properties and a surge in demand for sustainable fabrics, particularly from younger consumers, manufacturers and farmers say.
Fleeces of animals affected by drought are thinner and often tainted by dust, said buyer Andrew Blanch, managing director of Italian textile maker-owned New England Wool.
Clients of Chinese wool mills are also starting to balk at the high prices, leading to a stand-off between buyers and sellers and some bales being left unsold, said Michael Jones, chief executive of Australia’s dominant wool storage and export house, AWH.
Italian clothmaker Reda started to produce woollen sports fabrics after the financial crash of 2008 which saw demand for suits tumble, said CEO Ercole Botto Poala, who is related to the chief executive of Botto Giuseppe.
Wool active wear fabric now makes up 10 percent of the company’s 110 million euro annual turnover and is its fastest-growing product range, he said.
Reda has put up its prices in response to higher wool prices, but declined to say by how much.

The director general of the Meteorological Organization of Mazandaran province in northern Iran says widespread drought in the country is driving migration to his province as farmers look for land with a more plentiful water supply, but Mazandaran is itself now struggling with a water shortage.
Speaking at the 18th National Rice Conference on Monday, Director General Mohammad-Reza Razavi said the provinces struggling with the most severe drought, including Fars and Khuzestan provinces, have compounded their problem by increasing the amount of cultivated land by 50 percent, meaning there is less water to irrigate more land.
Razavi said the shortages have spurred migration to the Mazandaran province,"but, Mazandaran is also threatened by a shortage of water,” adding that droughts have led to a 30 percent drop in precipitation in Mazandaran each year.
​ Increasingly severe droughts, a dramatic drop in precipitation caused by climate change, and years of government mismanagement of water resources has made life increasingly difficult for farmers and others living in the provinces, and is one of the issues driving civil unrest in the country over the last year.
Iran is increasingly vulnerable to climate change, experts say.
Rainfall in the Middle East is expected to fall 20 percent by the end of the century, and temperatures could rise by as much as 5 degrees Celsius, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"A severe drought, mismanaged water resources, and dust storms diminished Iran’s economy in recent years, according to experts who study the region.
While the protests are largely driven by resistance to the country’s hardline conservative government, such environmental factors might have contributed to the largest protests inside Iran in years" Scientific American reported last January amid massive demonstrations in at least a dozen cities in Iran.
"The drought has certainly impacted Iran’s economy broadly, and it’s impacted the quality of life and living and migration patterns around Iran quite considerably," Suzanne Maloney, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Energy Security and Climate Initiative told Scientific American.
"It’s an issue of huge political importance, one that factored into the presidential election last year, so it’s certainly something I think one can say has had a role in shaping frustrations and driving some of the underlying grievances around the protests," Maloney said.

“But it might not happen.
We might see a little pinkish glow in the sky, it might be an annoying haze, or it could be a full-on dust storm.” Sydneysiders will be bracing for a repeat of the 2009 dust storm, which turned skies orange, grounded flights and shrouded landmarks like the Opera House in a deep red haze.
Pyne said this week’s dust storm would more likely arrive in the afternoon than the morning.
“We’re going to just keep watching the dust cloud on the satellite imagery,” she said.
And with less vegetation due to the drought, there is also more exposed soil.
It doesn’t take as much.
For tomorrow we are forecasting strong to gale force winds in parts of western NSW and, if it lifts dust higher up into the atmosphere, as this system tracks east, it will bring the dust with it.” She said Canberra was more likely to experience a dust storm than Sydney, as the capital had already experienced dust events this year.
The bureau has also issued a fire warning in NSW due to the strong, dry winds.
The NSW health department also has a guide to dust storms available on its website.
Infants, children, the elderly and those with heart disease and diabetes are vulnerable to the effects of a dust storm.

Parents of children in drought-affected areas are having to decide which of their kids to remove from boarding schools due to not being able to afford school fees, the head of a national rural group says.
The federal president of the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association (ICPA), Wendy Hick, told the ABC parents who owned farms in drought-stricken parts of the country were reducing the amount of time their children spent at boarding school because money was tight.
They go out to work, they need to help out on the farm or whatever project or business the family is in, and that could be the end of their secondary schooling."
Ms Tully said boarding school for her children was not a choice.
Ms Tully said if farmers were already receiving Government money through the Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) scheme, then in times of farming hardship like drought it should make them automatically eligible for other payments like the Farm Household Allowance (FHA).
Mr Littleproud added that the FHA application had now been reduced to 73 questions, and the Government had provided help to farmers to complete their applications.
Children under pressure to help mum and dad Ms Hick said children who are able to stay in boarding school feel extra pressure.
"If they are away at school they feel that they’re not doing their part, that they should be at home helping mum and dad get through this drought," she said.
Boarding schools ‘trying to help wherever they can’ Ms Tully said boarding schools were usually helpful when they received fee due dates be altered, but said "a number of people take out personal loans to try and cover that".
The ICPA has put a submission to the Federal Government’s review into the Farm Household Allowance.

Permits ran at a seasonally adjusted annual 1.263 million pace during the month, 0.6% lower than in September and 6% lower than year-ago levels.
What happened: Builders broke ground on more homes in October, but they applied for fewer permits to start work in the future, another reminder that housing market activity is still moving in fits and starts.
But construction activity is clearly slowing.
Year-to-date, starts were only 3.9% higher than in the same period of 2017.
Another measurement, single-family starts, is also losing ground.
In October, they were 1.8% lower than in September and 2.6% lower than a year ago.
Analysts watch single-family starts closely because those homes are mostly built for purchase, rather than rent.
What they’re saying: “With rising mortgage rates and increases in house prices that continue to outstrip disposable income, housing affordability has dropped notably since peaking in 2012,” UBS analysts wrote in a recent note.
Economics analysts said after the release.
“We should see a lift for all the housing data from disaster rebuilding as we approach 2019.” Market reaction: Stocks tumbled Monday on the heels of a disappointing report on home-builder confidence, among other issues.

Opposition Congress and NCP on November 20 refused to hold any discussion in the Maharashtra Legislative Council over the prevailing drought conditions in the state, but asked the government to immediately provide compensation to the affected farmers.
"Things have gotten so worse that farmers have to light their own pyre and commit suicide," he said.
He claimed that even 22 days after drought was declared, the government was yet to undertake relief measures and water tankers were not being roped into service.
Munde demanded that the government should announce Rs 1 lakh per hectare as compensation to drought-hit farmers and waive the fees of students for the entire year.
He also sought that the electricity bills of the last year in drought-hit areas be waived.
First, provide immediate relief then we can discuss it," he said.
Raising the issue of Maratha reservation, Munde demanded that the report of the State Backward Class Commission be tabled in the House.
"The government does not seem serious on providing reservation either to Marathas or to Dhangars," he added.
Responding to Munde, Leader of the House and Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil said the state cabinet has accepted the commission’s recommendations on the Maratha quota of forming a special category of ‘Socially and Economically Backward Class’.
He said a cabinet sub-committee already set up for the implementation of the Maratha quota will take a legal opinion on whether the commission’s report can be tabled in the Legislature.

Herat – Afghanistan is currently facing its worst drought in decades.
More than half of the displaced have settled in Herat city, 39 per cent are in and around Qala-e-Naw, the provincial capital of Badghis, and the remaining two per cent in other provinces.
The displaced population is desperately poor and lack access to food, water, shelter and health services.
Many are living in tents or in the open air with the onset of freezing winter temperatures.
USAID’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is responding to the crisis with a major airlift of aid, including plastic sheeting, blankets and kitchen sets, to help 10,000 families or 70,000 individuals.
IOM is organizing warehousing of the aid and its distribution in Herat and Badghis over the next three weeks.
The first of three C-17 aircraft carrying the aid landed in Herat on Saturday (17/11).
Ambassador John Bass, speaking at Herat airport, welcomed the airlift.
3.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 20 of the most drought-affected provinces in Afghanistan, UN World Food Programme reported last week.
More information on IOM assistance to Afghans affected and displaced by natural disasters, including drought, can be found here.

While wealthy nations will be burdened with the costs of such disasters, poorer nations will experience great loss of life from them, the authors say.
Meanwhile, California’s poor air quality is drawing attention to the lasting negative health toll it can take.
This chilling prospect is described in a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change, a respected academic journal, that shows the effects of climate change across a broad spectrum of problems, including heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, hurricanes, flooding, drought and shortages of clean water.
(Schwartz, 11/19) Fire crews are still working to contain the deadly inferno that leveled the town of Paradise, virtually wiping it off the map.
Thousands of people are homeless, living in tents, trailers and parking lots.
Scientists say as temperatures continue to warm, drying out brush, grasses and trees into explosively flammable fuel by late summer and autumn, catastrophic fires and the unhealthy smoke they spew hundreds of miles away will almost certainly become more frequent in California and across the West in the coming years.
(Rogers, 11/19) People could add years to their lives in California and other smog-plagued parts of the world if authorities could reduce particulate pollution — soot from cars and industry — to levels recommended by the World Health Organization, a new study reported Monday.
Fresno residents would live a year longer if the region could meet the health organization’s recommended levels of exposure, according to Monday’s study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
They are not the first to show a link between exposure to pollutants during pregnancy and the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders.
But both studies look at large populations and find a link with relatively low levels of pollutants.